Friday, 20 January 2012

No Need to Worry About Teaching History...

Today I was speaking to a Mordern Litt MA student, who was from the States. After a while, the conversation turned to what I was studying:

Him: "Oh, so what part of the Middle Ages do you study?"

Me: "I'm an early medievalist, so my version of the Middle Ages ends in 1066, when everyone else's is taking off."

Him: "Why, what happened in 1066 that was so special?"

Well, at least the national panic over the what people know about the past which regularly surfaces should abate a bit, things aren't so bad after all (relatively)...

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